Past exam of the general relativity course of the University of Oxford / 2022 / 1 / c

Take the tensor contraction of the Einstein field equations with the inverse metric $g^{\mu \nu }$. In four-dimensional spacetime, $g^{\mu \nu }{g}_{\mu \nu }=4$, henceHere $T$ is the tensor contraction of the stress-energy tensor. Substituting this result back into the Einstein field equations, while keeping both free indices lowered, gives the trace-reversed stress-energy tensor:The factor $1/2$ uses the dimension four: in dimension $n>2$, the Trace-reversed Einstein field equations in D dimensions have $1/(n-2)$ in place of $1/2$.